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The bile salt export pump: clinical and experimental aspects of genetic and acquired cholestatic liver disease.
Seminars in liver disease - 1 May 2010
Lam Ping, Soroka Carol J, Boyer James L
Abstract excerpt
The primary transporter responsible for bile salt secretion is the bile salt export pump (BSEP, ABCB11), a member of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily, which is located at the bile canalicular apical domain of hepatocytes. In humans, BSEP deficiency results in several different genetic forms of cholestasis, which include progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 2 (PFIC2), benign recurrent...
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